Snowdrops is a story of Moscow seduction and corruption told from the viewpoint of a middle-aged London ex-pat lawyer named Nick Platt. To Masha and Katya, the two young and enticing Muscovite women he meets on the subway, he is Kolya, a "useful" foreigner who they tease, tempt and entice into helping them commit "the perfect Moscow crime." Only Nick isn't sure whether or not a crime is even being committed. To him, Masha is the girl he thinks he loves; Katya, her sister. But then, he really doesn't want to look much beyond that because the Moscow winter is long and cold, and the girls are young and beautiful. The truth is, Nick has lived too long in Moscow--a city where "the less you look, the longer you live" and "the less you know, the better off you are." He doesn't realize until too late that the city of corruption has corrupted him.
Snowdrops is one of those books I ended up thinking about for days after I finished reading it. Which isn't a bad thing in a book. It definitely captured my curiosity and held my interest. It's nice to read a book where you can't predict how it will end, but at the same time has an ending that isn't a complete surprise when you finally reach the last page. And if you read it, it'll give you a whole new definition for the term snowdrops. (And make you think twice about ever going to Moscow!) So if you like a mystery with a compelling setting, good pacing and tension, and a psychological edge--and you don't mind characters with some very questionable morals--I recommend this one. It's a book you won't soon forget.
Happy Reading!
